21DSD: Prep to Treat Yo’self!

I’m starting to figure out what some of the preparation is that I need to achieve a happy body sugar balance. Dishes MUST be done. If dishes don’t get done, I can’t cook. If I can’t cook, I can’t eat. If I can’t eat, I resort to other more sugary things to tide me over. If I resort to other more sugary things, I binge like a crack addict. That’s seriously not an exaggeration.

So! I’m working on how to make the dishes less daunting for myself. I’m also prepping to have a sweet snack to satisfy my insane sweet tooth. Not Horizon cookies. Not even Enjoy Life cookies. (Although those are the BOMB DOT COM!) Next time I go shopping, I’m getting a bag of Granny Smith apples! I think I mentioned this already, but I’m reinforcing it. Snacks. Are. Not. The. Devil. In fact, I had hard boiled eggs as a snack today. I’ll go egg-less next shopping trip, but I really don’t think (or want to think) eggs are the problem. I think my stomach is just very sensitive to how much I eat. When I eat beyond full, say just to clean my plate, I’ll feel the indigestion sitting beneath the surface. It’ll be a while, too, before my stomach fully settles so that’s probably why I get indigestion later on as well.

I started taking Primal Flora, a gut bacteria supplement, about a month ago. Shouldn’t that make my stomach less sensitive? Maybe if I can really stick to this detox, my stomach will get a chance to heal. There are so many variables. Gosh! The biggest problem is just keeping myself motivated. My signs aren’t pushing me like they did on day one. Maybe I should switch them out for some new motivational signs. There’s a thought. Replace the signs each week or whenever I feel like I need a new burst of inspiration.

Also, keep the darn dishes clean! Do you know how hard I wanted to order an extra large pizza for $9 just because it was easier than cleaning all the dishes and then cleaning the cutting board and then cleaning the chef knife just to make coconut breaded chicken? I wanted that pizza REEEEEEEEEEEEAL hard. But it wouldn’t justify Mark’s motto that I want to live by, “Live long; drop dead.” That’s how life should be lived. I won’t live very long if I keep eating cheap crap, but I’ll certainly drop dead. It’ll just be a more painful process than it ought to be.

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Brenna is a graduate of Kean University with a B.A. in theatre with teaching certification. Her passion for education has transformed her hobbies of performing, writing, and gaming into a lifestyle of performing her writings about gaming. She is an advocate for "radical" unschooling and lives her principles of voluntaryism. Brenna live streams board games with her fiance in their modest apartment in NJ with their two cats.